μύλη
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (múlos). Cognate with Latin mola, English meal, maelstrom.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li/
Noun
editμῠ́λη • (múlē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension
- A mill, a hand-mill turned by women.
- A nether millstone.
- A kneepan.
- A hard formation in a woman's womb.
- (in the plural) Molars.
- Synonym of μῶλῠ (môlu).
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῠ́λη hē múlē |
τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ múlā |
αἱ μῠ́λαι hai múlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῠ́λης tês múlēs |
τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn múlain |
τῶν μῠλῶν tôn mulôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῠ́λῃ têi múlēi |
τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn múlain |
ταῖς μῠ́λαις taîs múlais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῠ́λην tḕn múlēn |
τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ múlā |
τᾱ̀ς μῠ́λᾱς tā̀s múlās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́λη múlē |
μῠ́λᾱ múlā |
μῠ́λαι múlai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- μῠλαῖος (mulaîos)
- μῠ́λᾰξ (múlax)
- μῠλᾰ́ρῐον (mulárion)
- μῠλεργᾰ́της (mulergátēs)
- μῠλεύς (muleús)
- μῠληβόρος (mulēbóros)
- μῠληθρῐ́ς (mulēthrís)
- μῠλήκορον (mulḗkoron)
- μῠλήφᾰτος (mulḗphatos)
- μῠλῐ́ᾱς (mulíās)
- μῠλῐᾰ́ω (muliáō)
- μῠλῐκός (mulikós)
- μῠ́λῐνος (múlinos)
- μῠ́λλω (múllō)
- μῠλόδους (mulódous)
- μῠλοειδής (muloeidḗs)
- μῠλόεις (mulóeis)
- μῠλοεργής (muloergḗs)
- μῠ́λοικος (múloikos)
- μῠλοκόπος (mulokópos)
- μῠλουργός (mulourgós)
- μῠλωθρός (mulōthrós)
- μῠλών (mulṓn)
- μῠλωνᾰ́ρχης (mulōnárkhēs)
- ῠ̔δρομῠ́λη (hudromúlē)
- χειρομῠ́λη (kheiromúlē)
Descendants
edit- ⇒ New Latin: mylohȳoīdēs, mylohȳoīdeus
- → English: mylohyoid, mylohyoideus
References
edit- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μύλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- mill idem, page 529.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *melh₂-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek doublets
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (zero grade)